agnate
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- noun
- /ˈæɡneɪt/
- Specialized
:
agnado
- During the family reunion, I met an agnate I had never seen before, but we shared the same grandfather.
Examples
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An agnate is someone who is related to you through your father's side of the family, like a cousin.
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In some instances, the husband will choose to remain with his wife's agnates permanently.
Academic text (1992) -
Those who choose not to take up residence in a name-designated hamlet must cultivate the garden plots of a close agnate, such as a father or brother.
Academic text (1992) -
The most common kinship set in a longhouse was structured around male agnates and their nuclear or extended families; yet this arrangement was always subject to variation.
Academic text (1993) -
This man is almost always either an agnate (either a classificatory brother or father) or an affine, a uterine-linked kinsman of the son (typically a mother's brother).
Academic text (1992) -
The goat was for a limited group of people: his living male agnates, all of whom lived in the Chibi section of Folokhwe subward, and other close kin in Chibi.
Academic text (1993) -
My agnate brother visited us last summer, sharing stories about our family's history.
Synonyms
A person related to someone through their father
Relatives who come from the father's family line
A relative on the father's side of a family
A person who belongs to the family line through their father
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Agnate comes from Latin agnatus, built on natus which means 'born' and is the same root as native. So an agnate was someone born into the same father's family, meaning a relative on the father's side.